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dirkd wrote:

LXterminal is fine, but very limited in features. I also doesn’t support transparency under plain fluxbox.

This is the first thing i do when installing , if i want to use testingrepos, prior to dist-upgrade. I set lxterminal to hold to keep the stable variant, just because of the fake transparency.
lxterminal from stretch uses libgtk2 and the one from buster uses libgtk3 and the fake-transparency doesn’t work any more

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We can expect roxterm “latest version” will be undesirable.
A while back, when working on rox-filer I checked the prospect of also forking roxterm
https://github.com/realh/roxterm/commits/master/debian/control
and discovered that its later versions (compared to the version present in debian8 // antiX16)
— dropped gtk2 support
— use libvte2.91 (no transparency/opacity) and “depppppacate” other roxtern features related to libvte-2.90 functionality

Zero remarkable bugs were reported against the older version, and only 1 bugfix (insignificant, regarding callback in response to new tab events) is present in later roxterm version… so I decided it’s not (yet) worth the effort to fork ~~ just keep using the (debian8 // antiX16) version.

FWIW, Deepin project maintains a fork of the libvte2.91 package which is patched to restore transparency support. I haven’t investigated whether that can cleanly serve as a drop-in replacement for use in antiX.

[Member dirkd]

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I had a very frustrating day today. My new Antix17 deteriorated with every new boot: hangups in Spacefm, Firefox and other programs… Unetbootin and Live USB Maker no longer working. I had to make a unetbootin stick with my old Antix15 system, and that one gave an error message when booting from it (‘Not a com32R image’). Wasted lots of time, but in the end I had a clean Antix 17.2 (x64) install from the iso, without any customisation whatsoever of the live system before install. For the moment I don’t have any problems at all. Startup and shutdown times are as good or even better than with Antix15 32 bit (45 sec. and 1ess than 10 sec. respectively). This is what I’ve done so far:

Installation Antix 17.2
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* Clean install from iso with unetbootin
* Root partition says Antix 17.1!

$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Host: dokux Kernel: 4.9.126-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 
  Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 Distro: antiX-17.2_x64-full Helen Keller 4 October 2018 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P5QL PRO v: Rev 1.xx serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: American Megatrends v: 0902 date: 11/28/2008 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo E7400 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn 
  rev: A L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 bogomips: 11177 
  Speed: 1870 MHz min/max: 1603/2800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1870 2: 2136 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2] driver: nouveau v: kernel 
  bus ID: 01:00.0 
  Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: nouveau unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
  resolution: 1280x1024~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NV98 v: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801JI HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.126-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet 
  driver: ATL1E v: N/A port: cc00 bus ID: 02:00.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: D-Link System DWA-140 RangeBooster N Adapter(rev.B1) [Ralink RT2870] 
  type: USB driver: rt2800usb bus ID: 2-3:4 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 3.68 TiB used: 358.94 GiB (9.5%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD5000AAKS-00UU3A0 size: 465.76 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Intel model: SSDSA2CT040G3 size: 37.27 GiB 
  ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Samsung model: HD753LJ size: 698.64 GiB 
  ID-4: /dev/sdd vendor: Western Digital model: WD6401AALS-00E8B0 size: 596.17 GiB 
  ID-5: /dev/sde vendor: Kingston model: SV300S37A120G size: 111.79 GiB 
  ID-6: /dev/sdf vendor: Western Digital model: WD20EZRZ-00Z5HB0 size: 1.82 TiB 
RAID:
  Hardware-1: VIA VT6421 IDE/SATA Controller driver: sata_via v: 2.6 bus ID: 05:02.0 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 36.44 GiB used: 2.90 GiB (8.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.02 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sde2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 69 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 205 Uptime: 16m Memory: 3.86 GiB used: 476.4 MiB (12.0%) Init: SysVinit 
  runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.25 

* Make links in home folder
* Configure wifi: OK
* Edit /lib/udev/rules.d/97-hid2hci.rules to support my Logitech keyboard and mouse
* Change fluxbox style to Radiant (normal)
* Reboot to test keyboard and mouse (OK)
* Edit fstab and mount all partitions. Reboot (OK)
* Copy configurationfiles for fluxbox and conky
  Background of the conky window changes more slowly than in Antix15
* Startup timed: ~45 seconds - Shutdown timed: less than 10 seconds (the same or 
  even slightly better than Antix 15)

I can confirm that the conky background is changing more slowly then in Antix15. And maybe I know why. In Antix15 I had Conky 1.10.2. Now Synaptic says I have Conky-legacy-all 1:1.9.0-6. So it seems I have a different versionn of conky after all.

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old roxterm now available in the antiX repos.

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

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Good job. I’m using it now as default terminal. Love it. Thanks!

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